香港科技大学（广州）《基础英语（二）》2024-2025学年第一学期期末试卷.doc

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香港科技大学（广州）《基础英语（二）》2024-2025学年第一学期期末试卷
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第一部分 （共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
1、—Did your father enjoy seeing his old friends yesterday?
—Yes, he did. They each other for ages.
A．didn’t see B．wouldn’t see
C．haven’t seen D．hadn’t seen

2、The engineer is thought to be capable and modest, so his promotion to manager is a popular _____.
A．achievement B．appointment C．commitment D．employment

3、According to the bank rules released recently, you have to pay a 25% ________ on each cheque you cash.
A．admission B．pension
C．allowance D．commission

4、— What happened to the young trees we planted last week?
— The trees __________ well, but I didn’t water them.
A．might grow B．would have grown
C．needn’t have grown D．would grow

5、Mary felt from the outside world, since she lacked an Internet connection and couldn’t receive any e-mail.
A．cut down B．cut in C．cut off D．cut out

6、 if I had arrived yesterday without letting you know beforehand?
A．Would you be surprised B．Were you surprised
C．Had you been surprised D．Would you have been surprised

7、By the time we ________ from our school, we have been close friends for more than ten years.
A．graduated B．will graduate
C．are graduating D．graduate

8、The 88thAcademy Award Ceremony was held in Dolby Theatre ______ seats an audience of approximately 3,400.
A．where B．whose C．when D．which

9、Some people use hand-written letters ______ typing because they’re more personal and represent your sincerity.
A．in preference to B．in process of C．in reference with D．in search of

10、You’d better write down the phone number of that restaurant for future ________.
A．purpose B．reference C．memory D．assessment

第二部分 阅读理解（满分20分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
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Both honeybees and ants are social insects that live in groups called colonies. They survive by means of their collective intelligence. Their decision-making power is distributed throughout the group; that is, no one ant or bee makes decisions for the group. Instead, they work together. As Deborah M. Gordon, a biologist of Stanford University, says, “Ants aren’t smart. Ant colonies are.” The same is true for bee colonies. Although bees and ants are quite different physically, they have a lot in common in terms of their behavior. Specifically, honeybees and ants have similar roles within the colony, both have communication systems, and both have the capacity of learning.
Ants communicate by using chemicals called pheromones, which can alert others to danger or to a food source. For example, when worker ants find a promising source, they let the rest of colony know how to find it by leaving a trail of pheromones on the way back to the colony. The other ants pick up the message using their sense of smell. Bees, on the other hand, use movement to communicate with each other. Worker bees send message to each other by means of a “dance”. Different speeds and movements send different messages. For example, when worker bees called scouts go out to find a new hoe for the colony, they return and do a dance for the other worker bees that indicates the location of the new home and how suitable it is. The faster the scouts dance the better the new location is.
Honeybees and ants are both capable of learning. One Chinese study found that bees can be trained to learn and remember a route to a food source. The researchers also found that bees can be taught to recognize hidden objects and use the concepts of “sameness” and “difference” to accomplish certain tasks. Ants take this one step further. Recent America research has shown that ants not only have the ability to learn, but also can teach their foraging skills to other younger ants. They observed that older ants accompany young ants in search of food and teach them the route and how to avoid obstacles.
As we can see, the social behavior of honeybees and ants is quite similar. Both coordinate complex actions and accomplish crucial survival tasks by cooperating in groups consisting of many individuals. Unintelligent as they may be as individuals, as groups they often show amazing brilliance as they go about their everyday activities.
1、What do ants and bees have in common?
A．They make use of collective intelligence.
B．They live in similar-sized colonies.
C．They have small leadership groups that make all decisions.
D．They use the same method to communicate with each other.
2、What docs the speed of a bee’s dance indicate?
A．The distance to a neighboring colony.
B．The quality of a new colony location.
C．The discovery of a new food source.
D．The direction to a potential food source.
3、In paragraph 3, how docs the author demonstrate the idea that Honeybees and ants are both capable of learning?
A．By using statistics. B．By explaining reason.
C．By presenting study findings. D．By stating opinions.
4、What does the underlined part “foraging skills” refer to in the third Paragraph?
A．The skills of communicating. B．The skills of sacking food.
C．The skills of leaning. D．The skills of finding a new home.

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A good disguise keeps you hidden, right? Well, sometimes the best disguise is actually the most dazzling because research reveals that flashy metallic iridescence(金属彩虹色) can visually puzzle predators, which allows colorful prey to survive another day. Those surprising results appear in the journal Scientific Reports.
Shining iridescent color, which changes depending on the angle from which it's viewed, is favored by everything from birds to beetles and blossoms to butterflies.
“And in our research group we are of course interested in why this vivid metallic color is so widespread in nature.” Karin Kjernsmo of the University of Bristol adds that in some cases the showy splashes of light are a sexual strategy. “Here I would like to point out that in some species, particularly those that display strong sexual dimorphism(雌雄两性), such as birds of paradise or some butterflies or fishes, the occurrence of iridescence is most likely driven by sexual selection. For example, in many of these cases it is the males that have these vivid iridescent colors and they use them in mate choice or they use them as a signal to attract mates.” But iridescence also shows up in situations where reproduction is not an issue. “So what we are studying now is whether natural selection imposed by predation(捕食行为) could explain the occurrence of iridescence in prey animals.”
The idea that eye­catching colors could be used as a cover­up isn't a new one.“The father of camouflage theory, Abbott Thayer, really believed that iridescence should be categorized as a camouflage strategy. And he wrote in his famous lifework Concealing­Coloration in the Animal Kingdom, already in 1909, that ‘brilliantly changeable or metallic colors are among the strongest factors in an animal's concealment’. And this sounds like a completely unreasonable thing to say, because how can colors that are both brilliant and changeable contribute to animal's concealment？”
“In a similar way, we were asking whether iridescence, due to its changeability, could work as a form of camouflage by preventing shape recognition.” Kjernsmo and her colleagues trained bumblebees to associate a particular shape—a circle or an oval—with a sugar reward. And they found that the bees, when given a choice, would preferentially visit the shape they knew to be sweet. But when the shapes were iridescent, the bees had trouble telling them apart. “It seemed that the strikingly iridescent surfaces on our targets visually broke up the otherwise recognizable shape of the targets, which made them hard to distinguish.” As for making use of this method for hiding in plain sight, “Any practical applications is of course directly linked to any industry that has an interest in camouflage, that is how to conceal objects or make them more difficult to recognize.” The researchers are currently conducting experiments with birds, which often prey on iridescent insects to see if it helps to have a bird's­eye view.
1、According to the passage, iridescence is not made use of by animals to ________.
A．live a little longer by escaping their predator(捕食者)
B．catch the attention of their mates
C．conceal themselves when in danger
D．catch sight of more colorful preys
2、From the study in the last paragraph, we can learn that ________.
A．Bees can always tell the difference between a circle and an oval
B．Bees are creatures that are fascinated by sweet things that are iridescent
C．If a circle, with a sugar reward, is iridescent, the bees may have difficulty finding it
D．Bees are likely to prefer circles to ovals, whether they are iridescent or not
3、What will be talked about in the following paragraph?
A．Whether there are any differences between bees and birds.
B．Some industries that have great interest in camouflage.
C．Why birds are not effected by iridescent insects.
D．Which camouflage theory applies more to birds.
4、Which of the following might serve as the best title of the passage?
A．A famous camouflage strategy B．Metallic iridescent as the best disguise
C．Colors unique to animals D．Shining colors as a sexual strategy

第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节）第一节（每小题1分，满分20分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项．
A Game of Light and Shade
It was a sunny day. I had gone up and down the tower when, outside the door at the foot, a blind man came toward me. In a moment, he disappeared up the stairs. I looked at the sign that said “To the Tower”, and decided to 1 him.
I caught up with him in the ticket office. There I was 2 to see the attendant (工作人员) selling him a ticket as if he were any other visitor. Then, with the ticket in one hand and 3 the wall with the fingers of the other, the blind man reached the stairs 4 to the hallway.
“That man is blind. What would a blind man climb up the tower for?” I said to the attendant, expecting him to show some 5 , but he didn’t answer.
“Not the 6 certainly,” I said. “Perhaps he wants to 7 .”
I bought a ticket and 8 up the stairs. The man hadn’t gone as far as I 9 . A third of the way up the tower, I heard his 10 . I slowed down and followed him at a little 11 . He stopped from time to time. When he got to the balcony, I was a dozen steps 12 . As I reached it, I saw him at the corner of the tower.
At last, after ten minutes, I 13 him. “Excuse me,” I said as politely as I could, “but I am curious to know 14 you came up.”
He smiled. “Coming up the stairs, you will notice how not just light but sun 15 into the tower through the narrow windows here and there, so that you can feel the 16 —the cool stairs suddenly become quite warm—and how up here behind the wall there is 17 , but as soon as going opposite a window you can find the sun. There is no 18 so good as this for feeling the difference between light and shade. It is not the first time I’ve come up.”
The blind man seemed quite 19 just like a child who was enjoying his favorite games. He told me the truth that blind men can also find the beauty in life 20 they cannot enjoy the sights of the world.
1、A．accept B．follow C．control D．visit
2、A．frightened B．disappointed C．surprised D．embarrassed
3、A．touching B．climbing C．hitting D．covering
4、A．pointing B．attaching C．contributing D．leading
5、A．respect B．doubt C．concern D．sympathy
6、A．view B．test C．prize D．trick
7、A．kick B．jump C．relax D．escape
8、A．struggled B．explored C．wandered D．hurried
9、A．promised B．examined C．imagined D．confirmed
10、A．steps B．words C．secrets D．cheers
11、A．standard B．distance C．expense D．intention
12、A．ahead B．around C．outside D．behind
13、A．recognized B．surrounded C．approached D．witnessed
14、A．why B．how C．when D．whether
15、A．knocks B．pours C．slides D．bursts
16、A．trend B．reaction C．change D．honor
17、A．light B．space C．mess D．shade
18、A．place B．signal C．object D．period
19、A．nervous B．content C．curious D．patient
20、A．unless B．because C．once D．although

第二节（每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
If you live in the United States, the law says you can’t have a full-time job until you are 16 years old At 14 or 15, you can work part-time after school or 1． weekends, and during summer you can work 40 2．(hour) each week Does all that mean that if you are 3．(young) than 14, you can’t earn your own money? Of course not! Kids 4． are between the ages of 10 and 13 can earn money by doing lots of things
Valerie, 11, told us that she made money by 5．(clean) up other people’s yards Lena, 13, makes money by knitting (织) dog sweaters and selling 6．(they) to her neighbors, and Reisa said she had started taking art classes and showing her work to people People have asked her 7．(draw) pictures for them and they pay her for them
Earning 8．(be) learning By working to earn your own money, you are learning the skills you will need to succeed in life Some people think that asking for money is a lot easier than earning it 9．, the five dollars that you earn will 10．(probable) make you feel a lot better in your hand than the twenty dollars you ask for

第四部分 写作（共两节）第一节 短文改错（满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(^)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。
2、只允许修改l0处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Yesterday morning, it was already 7:30 that I got up、 Thinking I would be late, I got dressing quickly and left without breakfast、 There were such many people at the bus stop that it was hard to catch a bus、 So I rush towards my school、 Suddenly, I ran across an old woman and she fell down、 Without make an apology, I left him and went on、 Later, I heard the old woman was bad injured in the leg and she was sent to hospital、 I felt it very sorry、 And the following day I paid her visit、

第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是李华，你的英国朋友Tim想在寒假时到中国旅游，发邮件向你征求旅游建议。请你回复邮件，内容包括：1. 推荐一个旅游城市；2. 给出推荐理由。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Tim,
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua

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